Sealed and Delivered

Photo Courtesy of Ben Needham Studio
Welcome to the newest change to Bartlett Street! Internationally-acclaimed mural artist ROA has graced the neighborhood with more in his menagerie. This is the second of many murals to be completed on Bartlett Street. Stay tuned while we fix up more walls, green the street and make it safer for the neighborhood!

San Francisco History on Bartlett Street

 

Artists Ben Wood, Jet Martinez, Bunnie Reiss, Ezra Eismont and MCM Director Jeremy Shaw 

Photo Courtesy of Ben Needham

Thanks to all those who made the Mission Dolores Mural happen, including Margaret Healy and the Mexican Museum! Last week all the artists and many community donors were able to celebrate the re-creation of the 200 year-old Mission Dolores Mural on Bartlett Street! Thanks so much for all of your help. It's been an honor to have San Francisco's First Mural painted by Jet Martinez, Bunnie Reiss and Ezra Eismont on this block. Many thanks to Ben Wood for photo documenting and bringing this mural to light.

Photo Courtesy of Ben Needham

National BBQ Month is May - with Dontaye

Last chance to celebrate National BBQ Month with Good Foods Catering and BBQ. The pork belly sandwich will knock your socks off! Or go loco with tacos - chicken or pulled pork. Dontaye prepares the pulled pork in a 3-day braising and smoking process. He also makes a mean strawberry lemonade and bottles his own BBQ sauce for sale at MCM!

Dontaye first started selling sandwiches on the street at the tender age of 19. In three minutes he had a line outside clamoring for more! And he hasn't looked back since. Good Foods started in 2009. Now, Dontaye, his sister Jasmine and their family are at 3 farmers markets, including the Mission Community Market!

Get Good Foods BBQ, grab a street seat, and listen to the music this week @ MCM! 4-8pm.

Swing around the Market - May 26th - 6pm!

Come join Cat's Corner on our corner for a FREE Swing Dance Lesson! Cat's Corner has weekly lessons and swing sessions around the corner at Savanna Jazz (Mission and 25th). Come out Thursday - 6pm for a spin!

Spring Berries are Here!

Remember the joy of summer? Luscious fruit, juicy, sweet and full of sunshine? Consider it done! Today=summer! It’s beautiful outside and MCM is bursting with raspberries, strawberries, cherries and the season’s first peaches! This week check out Yerena’s raspberries and strawberries (albion and seascapes). 2 baskets for $5 special (any kind) when you mention this ad.

Sweet Congratulations!

Yet another award-winning small business at MCM! Congratulations to Mindi and Kate and their Sweet Constructions sandwich cookies for winning SF Weekly's Best Dish Worth Hunting Down. Guess where you can find it: Thursdays, every week! This week, Kate and Mindi will be here from 4-6pm before accepting their award. Get the sando cookies while they last!

Back in the Zones!

If there were a man who makes Community a middle name, it would be Isaac Zones! After a monthly appearance last year, Isaac is back!! With instruments and playalong songs for all ages (but mostly single digits). Parents welcome too :)

Community Music in the Street!

Youth from the Community Music Center (Capp St at 20th) will be performing music at the market May 12th. Come support local youth in their inaugural MCM ensembles! 4-6pm

Congratulations Arizmendi and La Cocina!

Congratulations to Arizmendi Bakery and to La Cocina on their small business awards from the SF Bay Guardian. Come get Arizmendi yummies and Chaac Mool in the La Cocina cart every Thursday at MCM!

Cinco de Mayo a la Mission Community Market

Cinco de Mayo a la Mission Community Market, a set on Flickr.

Thanks for a great Cinco de Mayo Mission Community!

Cut your own! Papel Picado on Cinco de Mayo

Thanks Nancy for doing papel picado at MCM today!

This day just doesn't stop rockin! Piqued? Well come with kids and cut your own Papel Picado with world famous Nancy Charraga of Casa Bonampak just around the block! Nancy is one of many thriving women entrepreneurs in the Mission. Casa Bonampak is a Latin Boutique dedicated to preserving Mexican Traditions. They specialize in FAIR TRADE Mexican Wedding & Special Event Decorations. Check them out at mexevents.com or just walk to their store at 1051 Valencia.

 

 Nancy's niece Sophia in Casa Bonampak

Cinco de Mayo, con Mixtiso y Paiz

Vanessa Mosqueda of Mixtiso Latin Hip Hop
Mixtiso Latin Hip Hop Dance
Ring in Cinco de Mayo with a little Mixtiso! The talented young dancers of the Mission's Mixtiso Latin Hip Hop and Vanessa Mosqueda join us for a knock out performance, this week. Don't be late! 6:00pm.

The Worldly Paiz at MCM
We are lucky enough to have Danilo Paiz of Orquesta Universal join us! Danilo plays virtually everything under the salsa, rumba and latin jazz with amazing international talent like Ray Baretto, Ruben Blades, Dizzy Gillespie, and Cal Tjader. What?! And now on guitar at the Mission Community Market! Rock on under the sun, cinco de mayo. 4:30pm.

Chaac it Up on Sweet, Sweet Cinco de Mayo!

In honor of Cinco de Mayo, Sweet Constructions is offering a new ice cream sandwich made with their award-winning brownie cookie and Mitchell’s Mexican Chocolate Ice Cream! Also this week: Snickerdoodle Swirl with Dulce de Leche Ice Cream, Vegan (and Flourless) Almond Cookie with Chocolate Coconut Bliss. Oh my yum!

Sweet Constructions bakes the kinds of sweets that we like to eat: small, rich, old time favorites with natural ingredients and an elegant twist – ice cream sandwiches, mini cupcakes, chocolate crackles, snickerdoodles, and brownies to name just a few. It started in the Mission when Kate and Mindi met as upstairs and downstairs neighbors on 21st Street and started baking together for friends and fundraisers, like at at Buena Vista School. They ventured out with their cookie cart onto Valencia St and are now in their second season at the Mission Community Market!


Also in honor of cinco de mayo, special treats from Mission Fave Chaac Mool! Support Chaac Mool in the La Cocina Cart while watching youth dancers or listening to Danilo. Show your love with CHAAC drawings on the street! Real chalk provided. Cinco do Mayo menu especial includes:

TOSTADAS YUCATECAS
Crisp corn tortilla topped with choice of:
-Cochinita Pibil, Chaac Mool's signature slow-roasted, achiote-rubbed Niman Ranch pork, lettuce tomato, nopales (stewed prickly pear cactus) and handmade red and green salsa.
-Pollo, shredded chicken breast marinated with fresh herbs, lettuce, tomato, jicama, mango and handmade red and green salsa.
-Vegetarian lettuce tomato, sauteed mushrooms and handmade red and green salsa.

CHILES RELLENOS de Picadillo de Res en Escabeche
- poblano peppers stuffed with niman ranch beef, slowly cooked in vinegar to give it a unique flavor.

Also for Cinco de Mayo:
Emmy's - Jammin Jalapeno Jelly
Good Foods BBQ - Tacos!! Grilled chicken with a salsa Verde

Cinco de Mayo! This Jueves!

Mixtiso Latin Hip Hop from flickr user: marathonwil

Come on out for the real cinco de mayo this week and in the street! Get your mex on with tasty Yucataco's (yucatec + taco) from Mission fave Chaac Mool! Jammin jalapeno jelly from Emmy, and cool it down with scrumptious ice cream sandwiches from Sweet Constructions. 

This week in the street: Music from Danilo Paiz and the young women of Mixtiso Latin Hip Hop Dance with la maestra del mixtiso, Vanessa Mosqueda.